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In the UK, students get maintenance loans to pay for things like rent and food. These are organised via a government-linked non-profit called the Student Loans Company, and are repaid from the salary before the graduate sees the money once they earn over £15,000 (for people who had fees of £3k a year) or £21,000 (for people who started uni after fees went up to up to £9k a year). Such loans are not available for interns. Interns must support themselves while doing their internship, or have support from a partner or parent. This severely limits internships to those who can afford them, usually those with wealthy parents or a partner earning a good salary. Those who don't have savings, don't have rich parents, don't have a rich partner, or who have children to take care of, or health concerns that mean they can't themselves work 80 hour weeks, cannot apply for unpaid internships. This makes them discriminatory.

But who is capable of agreeing to that is limited by wealth. Those who can agree to it have some other form of income or support that means that they are capable of working for 6 months or a year without being paid. This usually means either (a) a partner or parent is supporting them, (b) they have savings they can live off or (c) they're working full time at the same time as doing an internship. People who cannot rely on savings or external support either cannot take the internship, or have to work 80 hour weeks - to the detriment of their ability to concentrate and potentially their physical and mental wellbeing, as well as their social lives.

Unpaid internships are therefore effectively limited to those from wealthy backgrounds, with wealthy or well-earning partners, and those with the capacity to work 80 hour weeks (which may exclude amongst others those with children to look after, those with physical disabilities, those with ongoing health problems, those with a long commute to the internship and so on. Note that people who can't work 80 hours for these sorts of reasons might well be able to work 40 hours fine).

Sure, the intern might thinks it benefits them, but they might also decide that they cannot do the internship because it doesn't pay anything. This makes unpaid internships indirectly discriminatory, favouring the rich over the poor.

Even apprentices get paid the apprenticeship wage, and they're learning their trade and potentially reducing the efficiency of the person that's teaching them as a result. Why shouldn't interns at the very least qualify for the apprenticeship wage, if not minimum wage?

Isn't there a bit of land between Egypt and Sudan that isn't claimed? A bit of unusable desert than neither want because claiming it would weaken their claim on another bit of land a few miles away that both claim?

I'm pretty sure Britain would swoop right in the moment there was even a hint of an invasion of Ireland. Britain's got a pretty large Armed Forces and also has all that guilt over fucking Ireland up for the last 500 years. And also that £7bn bailout we gave Ireland at the start of the recession - gotta protect your investments!

I've never quite understood why Britannia has a Corinthian helmet on. It's a helmet design more commonly seen on Athene. I think the Romans maybe just thought it was a suitable helmet for a female warrior figure to have propped up on top of her head.

I used to get these calls about three or four times a week, almost always recorded messages about PPI or sometimes texts about an accident I apparently had for which I could claim compensation. I signed up to the Telephone preference service and it's dropped dramatically to about once per month.

I had this a couple of times last year. A woman in the States was getting married and must have mistyped her email or forgot a number on the end or something and I got emails from her wedding planner confirming things they'd just spoken about, and from her wedding photographer too. I responded simply that they'd used the wrong email and could they contact their client some other way to correct it, and got an "oops, sorry, we'll sort it" email in reply from each of them and never heard a thing after that.

If it keeps happening, maybe try and get hold of the woman's contact details yourself and notify her that this is happening, it's rather annoying, and could she be more careful when giving out her email address in future.

Of course Oxford University was established by the church. It was the 13th century or whatever. What other entity had both the funds/influence and the inclination to found a centre of learning of that scale at that time?

Is it the Catholocism that made it a good school, though? Or the quality of the teachers? My school was the best non-grammar in the area too, but it wasn't a religious school. It was a girls' school. One could argue that, if faith made your school better than others, exclusion of boys made mine better than others too.

End of the world death cults in Christianity have caused numerous deaths. Looks at the Jonestown Massacre for example. It's just the deaths tend to be mainly confined to people within the cult, so they're not considered a danger to the general populace. But they're still dangerous to the people sucked in by lies and the people born into them with no opportunity to escape.

There's a lot of UKIP support in my area. Shropshire isn't exactly known for its high immigrant numbers, though. Of the people I went to school with, two have an immigrant parent - my fiance, whose Mum was born in Jamaica, and a friend whose father is French. I was more of an outsider at school than either of them because I was born in Oxford and only moved to Shropshire when I was 5, whereas almost all of my classmates were born in Shropshire.

I don't think I've ever met a muslim who lives in my town. The largest concentration of immigrants in my town don't live there, but rather in Wolverhampton or Birmingham and just commute in to run the Indian restuarants, Chinese takeaways and the kebab place.

I'm 26 and my Dad bought a flat for me and my fiance to live in. We pay him rent, but it's about half the market rate for a place this size in the area, and if we can't pay as much one month it's not a big deal. We'll pay market rate when we can afford to. At some point Dad will transfer ownership to me and my siblings jointly, or if something happens that makes me and my fiance very rich very quickly (why yes I do occasionally play the lottery), we'll straight up buy it off him.

Have bag slot expansions from the gem store be account wide, not just for a single character. Or reduce the cost. 400 gems for one bag slot on one character just doesn't sit right with me.

I second this. The bank upgrade is only like 600 or 800 (I forget which) but that's account-wide. Why is a backpack slot for one character so much? I wouldn't even mind if it doubled in price to be account-wide, but 400 for one character is a joke.

I would assume that for works like this they'd be notified several days in advance via letter. This was the case in my road, when new paving was laid (it was a new road, some of the houses were still being built when we moved into our flat, and the road and pavement paving hadn't been done). We got letters and notices were posted on lampposts saying "on (whatever date) please find alternative parking and do not park on the road as paving works are being carried out". Some people did ignore, and to this day one of the white triangles on a speed bump is still not there, because a car was parked on it on the day they were painting lines and speed bump triangles.

Laze, play computer games, write, travel to different parts of the world, and whenever I feel like it, do a degree in something that interests me. I'd end up with like 10 bacherlor degrees and maybe a couple of masters degrees.

Surely if you actually know what you're doing you can demonstrate under suitable test conditions what it is that you can do, and thereby have (a) a million dollars from James Randi and (b) an edge over those frauds in the form of proof of your ability.

My favourite cheap meal is onion soup. 1 onion, 1 stock cube, water, time. Though it does require more washing up (the jug for the stock, the bowl for eating, and the crock pot for cooking) and kitchen items that those on a limited budget might struggle to purchase - a slow cooker/crock pot (ours cost about £30, but gets a lot of use, two or three times a week, so it's pennies per use.)

And while it might save them money, it could end up alienating the recipient. My fiance's mum got a Christmas card last year from someone who had obviously done that. There was just a tiny bit of ink on the corner of the stamp that meant the postal workers noticed it was a reused stamp. Also it was selotaped onto the envelope. We got a card through the door saying there was a letter waiting, and it cost £1 plus the cost of the stamp to get the damn card. Whoever sent it might have saved 60p, but it cost me £1.60 and the time it took to complete that errand.

Yeah, with one of my friends it's take turns paying for whatever it is we're doing. So if we go out to lunch then to to cinema, one will pay for lunch, the other for the cinema. Sure it might be a few quid difference, but it'll even out in the end and really, we're not living on the breadline so a quid or two here or there doesn't really matter between friends.